I finally found some time to pick up the work on my smallish Stratos Custom Progetto. I put some primer on it. And was quite dissatisfied. As you can understand the picture above isn’t my custom as it looks awesome, even the paint. “My” Stratos paintjob resulted in this:

It didn’t came out as smooth as I wanted (good visible on the last shot at it’s door) and the seams seem to be filled way too much. is there any way to prevent this filling of the seams? So back to the drawing board for that one. I did another customization though: I created an open garage door on my Abarth diorama.

This Stratos HF StradaleBianco is a 1/43 from Minichamps. I’ve got a blu one as well but the paint on the white one is definitely better: the blue one seems to be too thick.

One thing that definitely disappointed me on these are the exhaust pipes though: No hollow tubing here?